The royal road
Subtitle: El Camino Real from Mexico City to Santa Fe
By: photographs by Christine Preston ; text by Douglas Preston and José Antonio Esquibel.
Contributors: Preston, Douglas J.; Esquibel, José Antonio.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Chihuahua Trail -- History.; Chihuahua Trail -- Pictorial works.; Chihuahua Trail -- Description and travel.; New Mexico -- Description and travel.; New Mexico -- History -- To 1848.; Chihuahua (Mexico : State) -- Description and travel.
Description: The husband-and-wife author-and-photographer team of Douglas and Christine Preston, seasoned travelers on the Camino Real, invite us to join them as they journey by car and horseback and on foot along this ancient road, which began thousands of years ago as a series of Indian trails. Christine Preston's photographs show wild places that have hardly changed over the centuries as well as churches, ruins, villages, and modern cityscapes.

Douglas Preston's text chronicles the history of the road and its travelers. Jose Antonio Esquibel provides fascinating historical information on the pioneer settlers of New Mexico including the origins and genealogies of old New Mexico families from Abeyta to Zamora.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-178).